With Asia as its backdrop, this book investigates the role played by the World Bank Group (WBG) in conceptualising and promoting new mining regimes tailored for resource-rich country clients. It details a particular politics of mining in the Global South characterised by the transplanting, hijacking and contesting of the WBG's mining agenda.

Autorentext

Pascale Hatcher is an Associate Professor in the College of International Relations of Ritsumeikan University, Japan, and an Associate Research Fellow of the Groupe de recherche sur les activités minières en Afrique (GRAMA) at the Université du Québec à Montréal, Canada.

Inhalt
Introduction 1. Into the Deep: The World Bank Group, Mining Regimes and Theoretical Insights 2. The Open Pit: Socio-Environmental Safeguards, Multilateral Meddling and Mining Regimes in the Philippines 3. Mining, Multilateral Safeguards and The Remodelling of Political Representation in Laos 4. Green Mining in the Gobi? Multilateral Norms and the Making of Mongolia's Mining Regime 5. Fighting Back: Resource Nationalism and the Reclaiming of Political Space